When Team USA takes the court in Rio in 2016 to defend its gold medal, you can expect to see somethings old and somthings new — guys who won gold in London and Beijing will be mixed with newcomers who got their real first taste of USA Basketball this coming summer in Spain for the world Championships.

USA Basketball released its player pool for the 2014 World Championships and 2016 Olympics on Thursday, and while that pool is fluid you can expect that the rosters of those teams will almost all come from the names below.

The pool of veterans includes every member of the 2012 London Olympics team except Kobe Bryant, who has said before he was retiring from the international stage.

“I talked to Kobe last night and he said ‘I’ll be there but you probably don’t want to play me,’” Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski said.

Curry did participate in the 2010 World Championships, but not the Olympics.

Durant and Kevin Love announced last summer that they would participate, and Krzyzewski said Thursday in a conference LaMarcus Aldridge said he wants to participate this summer. Expect this summer’s team to have a lot of guys from the bottom list above, with some of the veterans wanting to step back in for the trip to Rio. Hence, you end up with a mix.

Obviously injuries will play a role in who plays when. Coach K hinted that guys like Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook likely would not play this summer coming off their injuries, but they could be added to the pool and play in 2016.

There are other guys on the cusp of making this pool, Krzyzewski singled out Greg Monroe of the Pistons as one, and he could be added later.

Krzyzewski’s staff for both the World Championships will be Syracuse University veteran coach Jim Boeheim (bringing his zone defense knowledge among other skills), Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau and New Orleans Pelicans head coach Monty Williams.

That’s a fine sentiment. Saying it publicly is another matter. Not even Harden did that a couple years ago. He was recorded during a pregame team huddle.

There’s a fine line between self-fulfilling confidence and providing bulletin-board material to the opponent. There’s already some animosity between the teams stemming from the Stephen Curry-Harden MVP race in 2015, and it has bubbled since. No matter how harmless Capela’s remark might have been intended to be, it’ll be met contentiously in the Bay Area.

Oklahoma City traded for Victor Oladipo out of Orlando to be their third scorer, behind Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. It didn’t exactly work out that way, Durant bolted town and when Westbrook went off Oladipo was looking for a place to fit in.

That place turned out to be the Pacers.

Oladipo has been playing like an All-Star this season with Indiana, and last week he was key in snapping Cleveland’s 13 game win streak, then turned around and dropped 47 points on Denver. For the week he averaged 35.7 points a game, shot 45.7 percent from three, plus grabbed 7.7 rebounds per game.